Sports Teams Will Not Stop Coming To Las Vegas: This Time, Professional Women’s Hockey League Starts At T-Mobile Arena In 2026-27
By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Everyone (in sports) loves Las Vegas.
Professional women’s hockey is coming to Las Vegas and the PWHL expansion team will play at T-Mobile Arena in 2026-27.
The announcement is supposed to come out Wednesday.
After the NHL Golden Knights launched here in 2017, the Aces migrated from San Antonio in 2018 and the Raiders arrived here from Oakland in 2020. Soccer’s Las Vegas Lights also started in downtown Las Vegas’ Cashman Field in 2018.
The A’s are building a $2 billion stadium on the Strip that is scheduled to open in 2028, while the NBA is looking to expand into this market also in 2028. A Las Vegas man is also looking at starting a Major League Soccer team in Las Vegas. There are two minor league teams — baseball’s Las Vegas Aviators in Summerlin and hockey’s Henderson Silver Knights.
The women’s hockey league said Detroit would host an expansion team, while Las Vegas would be the tenth franchise. There’s also word that new teams could be coming to Hamilton, Ontario and San Jose, which would bring the total to 12.
The Golden Knights have supported the notion of a pro women’s hockey team in Las Vegas. VGK owner Bill Foley’s sports and entertainment group could play a part in the Las Vegas franchise, but all the teams are in a league owned by Dodgers owner Mark Walter, 66, who is worth more than $7 billion.
The women’s pro hockey games average 9,229 fans a game. PWHL teams are in Boston, Minnesota, Montreal, New York, Ottawa, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Speaking of women’s sports in Vegas, the 2026 United States Bowling Congress Queens starts this week at Gold Coast Bowling Center in Las Vegas, the third time in four years that the city has hosted one of the most prestigious events in women’s bowling.
The Aces, which have won the WNBA crown three times in the last four years, have sold out all their games at Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. There was a pro women’s volleyball team in Henderson, but the Thrill is gone.
